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By jean.day
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16 May 2007 |
I met the woman who bought my first book, Consequences, way back last spring, and she told me she enjoyed it at the time. But since then, she hasn't shown any interest in buying my other books, so I wondered if she had been sincere. Anyway, this is what she said. "I bought your book," she told me,"Shared it with my friends.""So lots will read your story.No one needs to buy."
Nice to know it's being read.|
Written by Phil (6635 comments posted) 16th May 2007 | Even nicer if they'd paid for it! It is good to know someone is reading your stuff. That's one reason why I like GW so much.
Enjoyed.
Phil.
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Written by Lizzy (783 comments posted) 16th May 2007 | I suppose she was acting in the place of a library, although do they have to pay some sort of royalty.
Still well written and expressed.
Lizzy
| Thanks Phil and Lizzy
Written by jean.day (2257 comments posted) 16th May 2007 | | I like the idea that she was impressed enough with the book to share it around. I never intended it as a way of making money. That book, Consequences, is the one I most want people to read - because it incorporates the real diary of Charles Walker that we inherited - and I like the idea that I am keeping his work alive 160 years down the line. | Tanka - 7
Written by CliffBowes (176 comments posted) 17th May 2007 | A nice piece of work Jean.
I think a Tanka should be a haiku of three lines plus two extra lines. Making a syllabic pattern of 5/7/5/7/7. The naga-uta, however, is a longer lyric poem in alternating lines of 5 & 7 syllables ending with an extra 7 syllable line. This can be of more or less any length.
I'm sorry to be so pedantic but please ignore me and carry on writing such nice works.
Cliff | HI Cliff
Written by jean.day (2257 comments posted) 17th May 2007 | Thanks for the info. I didn't realise that the spacing of the lines was important. I just thought any 31 syllables would do.
I'm not really into Japanese poetry - this was just a way to kill time while travelling on the train. I think I have run out of ideas now, which probably is about time. |
Written by Fledermaus (3238 comments posted) 18th May 2007 | Maybe she's just too busy or too greedy to buy the others  |
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